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"THEY WON'T LET ME NOT APPEAL IT"

BOB MACY SHOWS HIMSELF FOR THE SPINELESS JELLYFISH HE IS.

The NEW AMERICAN

Febuary 17, 1997

Nation Section

OKC: MORE TRUTH LEAKS OUT

By William F. Jasper

On January 17th, millions of television viewers of ABC's popular 20/20
program discovered what readers of The New American had learned over a year
before: that a substantial body of compelling evidence and a considerable
number of credible witnesses point to the strong likelihood that federal law
enforcement agencies knew in advance about a plot to bomb a federal building
in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. Entitled "The Families Want to Know," the
20/20 segment was an actual blockbuster that should help greatly to convince
many Americans that there has indeed been an ongoing, massive cover-up in the
federal investigation of the "deadliest terrorist attack on American soil."
FAMILIAR GROUND
Produced by Donald Thrasher and anchored by veteran ABC reporter Tom
Jerriel, the 20/20 investigation covered much of the same ground that was
plowed by The New American in our major cover story of December 11, 1995,
"Did Federal Agents Have Prior Knowledge?" and in subsequent stories in these
pages over the past year. Investigators for 20/20 interviewed witnesses who
reported seeing bomb squad vehicles at the Alfred P. Murrah Building an hour
and a half before the blast, and a private investigator who testified seeing
several bomb squad personnel with dogs searching the shrubbery and base of
the federal courthouse across the street from the Murrah Building just a half
hour before the explosion.
Tom Jerriel also conducted a shadow interview with the witness The New
American interviewed earlier who had rushed to the Murrah Building to find
his wife and was told by an ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms)
agent at the blast site that the ATF officers had been warned on their pagers
not to come in to work that morning. The ATF, of course, still denies that it
had any forewarning and would not, says 20/20, grant any interviews. To its
credit, the ABC team took the ATF to task for continuing to perpetuate one of
the more patently fraudulent and ludicrous of the agency's cover-ups in the
case: the falling-elevator-and ATF superman myth. In an attempt to defuse
public concern stemming from reports that the ATF had prior knowledge of the
bomb plot, the Bureau concocted an apocryphal tale that had ATF Agent Alex
McCauley and DEA Agent David Chickendance caught in one of the Murrah
Building's elevators that free-fell five stories as a result of the bombing.
According to this yarn, the dynamic duo forced open the steel doors and then
led ten or 15 people to safety. But 20/20 disposed of that fable by
interviewing Oscar Johnson and Duane James of the Midwestern Elevator
Company, who had inspected the elevators shortly after the explosion and
found that none of them had fallen. Mr. James described the ATF account as
"humorous" - Humorous from the standpoint of having caught someone in a
pathetically inept lie, perhaps, but infuriatingly contemptible from the
standpoint of those who lost loved ones in the murderous explosion and are
still desperately seeking answers.
(PHOTO INSET: Johnson and James: Experts debunked federal fable of falling
elevator. ABC News.)
Perhaps the most interesting and significant new evidence brought forward on
the ABC program was a piece of videotape from a surveillance camera at the
Regency Tower apartments one block from the Murrah Building. The tape, shot
from inside the Regency lobby, shows a Ryder truck parked across the street.
According to ABC's Jarriel, the rest of the tape 'may' show the individual
(or individuals) associated with the truck. The location of the truck shown
on the 20/20 video appears to fit with the eye-witness account of the nearby
cafe operator who says he sold Timothy McVeigh and a companion two softdrinks
and a pack of cigarettes shortly before the bomb went off.
Jarriel ended the segment with a group interview of bombing survivors and
family members in the home of Glenn and Kathy Wilburn, whose grandsons were
killed in the explosion. Jarriel asked: "What if these were honest men who
made an honest mistake that literally blew up in their face?" To which Glenn
Wilburn responded, "Then [they should] stand up and admit it." "We can deal
with the truth," replied Kathy Wilburn. "Just give us the truth."
(PHOTO INSET: 20/20 interviewed OKC bombing survivors and families: "Just
give us the truth." ABC News.)
PUSH FOR GRAND JURY
Back at the 20/20 studio set for the program's wrap-up, Barbara Walters
asked Jarriel, "Now we saw 'some' people here, but, in general - there were
many more involved, you know - how widespread is this feeling?" "We don't
really know," said Jarriel. "There's an Oklahoma legislator who has received
permission to gather petitions for a grand jury investigation of this by the
county for the first time. He says he has broad support for this effort, so
we'll see."
The legislator Jarriel was referring to, of course, is Oklahoma State
Representative Charles Key, who is familiar to readers of The New American.
Over the past year and a half, Key has courageously carried on a lonely fight
to address some of the most troubling aspects of the bombing case. Together
with the Wilburn family and a close circle of supporters, he has battled the
federal and state political power brokers and the media in an effort to
impanel a county grand jury to look into the bombing. The need for a county
grand jury became obvious for a number of reasons, he says. "The federal
government has filed charges against only two people they claim are
responsible for the murders of eight U.S. federal agents who died in the
bombing," notes Key. "No charges have been filed on behalf of the remaining
160 who lost their lives in the bombing, and the federal government has
blocked witnesses and important evidence from being brought before the
federal grand jury."
In October 1995, Hoppy Heidelberg, a member of that grand jury, was
dismissed from duty after he complained that federal prosecutors were
hampering the investigation and restricting the jury's rights of full access
to evidence and witnesses. He had grown especially concerned when it became
apparent that the prosecution was trying to limit indictments to Timothy
McVeigh and Terry Nichols, and attempting to discredit the existence of the
suspect known as "John Doe No. 2." "They went to a hell of alot of trouble to
try and make John Doe No. 2 go away," Heidelberg said.
Representative Key, the Wilburns, and other advocates of a county grand jury
want the many witnesses who allegedly saw John Doe No. 2 and other John Does
who may have been involved in the bombing to be called forward to testify.
"Such a jury, operating outside the scope of the federal investigation," says
the legislator, "would not only have the power to investigate the facts
ignored by the federal government, but would have the power to level criminal
obstruction of justice charges against anybody whom they believe has impeded
the investigation." "The legal questions are very clear," observes Key. "The
Oklahoma Constitution gives the people the right to have a county grand jury
impaneled if they believe the need exists. The Oklahoma Supreme Court fully
agreed with this in 1975 in the only precedent-setting case law." The case,
State ex rel. Harris v. Harris, concerned a district courts judge's power to
deny a county grand jury to be impaneled because of "insufficiencies" in the
people's petition. The Supreme Court ruled that the grand jury must be
impaneled because "the Constitution and statutes do not require specific
allegations of crime or offense in content of a grand jury petition" and "the
sufficiency of a grand jury petition should be liberally construed."
Two days after Heidelberg was thrown off the federal grand jury, Key and the
Wilburns began the formal petition process for a county grand jury. When
state District Judge Danial Owens ruled that their petition was
"insufficient," Key's attorney attempted to "correct" it to meet the judge's
objection. However, Judge Owens, ignoring the Supreme Court's 1975 admonition
to "liberally construe" petitions, quashed the effort. Key appealed that
action to the state Supreme Court. Early in 1996, the Oklahoma Supreme Court
remanded the case to the State Court of Appeals. On December 4, 1996, Charles
Key and attorney Mark Sanford presented their case before the Appeals Court
panel of three judges. They were heartened by the aggressive grilling two of
the judges gave the attorney representing Oklahoma County District Attorney
Bob Macy, who was opposing the call for a county grand jury. "It was obvious
they were very upset with the tactics being used to deny the jury petition,"
Key told The New American. On Christmas Eve the court handed the persevering
petitioners a wonderful Christmas present: a unanimously favorable decision.
"THEY WON'T LET ME..."
That, however, was still not the last legal word on the matter. The court
gave District Attorney Bob Macy until Monday, January 13th, to appeal the
decision. On January 2nd Charles Key, Glenn Wilburn, and Mark Sanford met in
Bob Macy's office with Macy and three of his staff members. "Macy told us he
wouldn't appeal the decision or stand in our way if it were up to him," Key
recalled to The New American. Yet when Key called Macy's office on the
afternoon of January 13th, shortly before the filing deadline, he received a
rude awakening: Macy informed him that he would be filing an appeal. "I was
upset and angry," recalled Key, "and I asked him, 'Why are you going to do
that, Bob, after you told us you weren't?' and he replied, 'They won't let me
not appeal it.' I asked 'Who is this they that won't let you?' but he was
just silent and wouldn't answer."
Representive Key says they agreed to meet the next morning in Macy's office,
but that get-together did not prove any more productive than the telephone
call. When Key pressed the DA about his flip-flop on the matter and urged him
to drop his opposition, Macy again stated, "They won't let me."
"There you go again," said the angy legislator. "Who are 'they'?" But
according to Key, Macy evaded the issue by bringing up other tangential
matters.
Charles Key believes he has a fairly good idea who some of the leading
"they" suspects might be. He has learned that on January 2nd, after the
meeting at which Macy had pledged not to appeal, Macy received a conference
call from Governor Frank Keating and Oklahoma City Fire Chief Gary Marrs. He
also received a call from federal prosecutors Patrick Ryan and Joseph
Hartzler. Of course, there was also Judge Owens.
Then there is the city's main newspaper, the Daily Oklahoman. "The Oklahoman
has opposed Key's mission from the beginning," the paper admitted in a
January 17th editorial entitled, "Drop It, Mr. Key." "State Rep. Charles
Key's quest to prove that a government conspiracy played some role in the
Murrah Building bombing is a weird and misguided exercise," opined the
Oklahoman. "Oklahoma County District Attorney Bob Macy is correct in
appealing a court ruling that allows Key a free hand to seek a county grand
jury probe of his conspiracy theories."
But if you want to consider sonething "weird and misguided," how about this
from the same Daily Oklahoman editorial:
"As we argued when Key first set out on this course, the Legislature and its
staff had no business investigating the bombing. It was, and is, poorly
equipped to do so. The same can be said of a panel of local citizens who
would be asked to investigate one of the most complicated cases ever to come
before the courts."
State legislatures regularly carry out investigative responsibilities. And
why disparage the county grand jury by suggesting the case is too
complicated? After all, the federal grand jury, in which the Oklahoman seems
to have supreme confidence, is also a mere "panel of local citizens."
On the same day as its Key-bashing editorial, the Oklahoman also devoted
considerable newsprint and ink to a sensational "news" story concerning
Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson's vituperative attack on Charles Key
because of a bill the resolute lawmaker had authored to fund the county grand
jury. Edmondson accused Key of proposing a "wasteful witch hunt" and of
engaging in "the worst kind of paranoid conspiracy pandering." The article
also reported that Edmondson had convinced the state District Attorney's
Council to oppose Key's funding bill. Nevertheless, the intrepid legislator
remains undaunted. "This is unprecedented, as far as I know, for the Attorney
General to go to such lengths with the District Attorneys Council and to use
such intemperate language," the soft-spoken Key told The New American. Then,
showing a sense of humor which has helped him survive the grueling gauntlet
over the past 18 months, he joked, "You just gotta know something's fishy
here; how often do you ever see a room full of attorneys turn down a bunch of
money?"
In his tirade against Key Attorney General Edmondson declared, "The very
idea that a county grand jury could uncover something that the FBI and
Stephen Jones [McVeigh's defense attorney] do not already know is
ridiculous." Likewise, the Oklahoman expressed unbounded faith in the justice
and competence of the federal overlords. "The first trial is nearing," it
chided. "A federal jury - and a rapt world attuned to news accounts - will be
given all the evidence against the defendents."
FEDERAL "STAR" WITNESS
But only a few days earlier, on January 8th, federal prosecutors revealed
that they plan to call only one eyewitness who claimes to have seen suspect
Timothy McVeigh park a Ryder truck outside the Murrah Building that tragic
April morning. Of the tens of thousands of witnesses interviewed by the FBI
and the numerous eyewitnesses who clain to have seen McVeigh, John Doe No.2,
and other John Does on that morning, only one is to be called? Yes, and his
name is William Dunlap. Dunlap's name was revealed in court papers unsealed
on January 8th by U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch. Why was Dunlap chosen
as the lucky witness? Most likely because he attests to seeing only McVeigh
with the Ryder truck. On the morning of April 19, 1995, Dunlap, an airline
employee, had stopped at the post office across from the Murrah Building just
seconds before the blast. He says he saw McVeigh get out of the Ryder truck
and go to the rear of the vehicle. since he did not see any other individuals
associated with the truck, he is a "safe" witness for the prosecution.
But if Oklahoma's power brokers and political elites are willing to
rubber-stamp the federal prosecutor's pathetic charade, it seems that a good
many Oklahomans are not. When Oklahoma City radio station KTOK conducted a
call-in poll recently they found that 90 percent of their callers were in
favor of Charles Key's effort to impanel a county grand jury. This is
particulary significant since KTOK has been, if anything, antipathetic to the
petition effort. Indeed, the station admitted to being very "surprised" at
the amount of support for the measure. Representative Key, a Republican, also
expressed surprise at the 90 percent rating, but said he has regularly seen
what he would estimate to be 60 to 70 percent support registered at public
forums he has attended, even those with high Democratic and liberal
representation. Says Key, "We're going to have our grand jury."